# Senior Manager, Engineering - Identity & Access Management

**Company:** [ClickUp](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickup)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $250k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** oauth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, jwt, MFA, SCIM, RBAC, abac, authorization engines, audit logging, enterprise sso, ai agent workflows, SaaS
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Leads and grows the Identity & Access Management Platform engineering team while owning delivery of secure, auditable, enterprise-grade authentication and authorization systems. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of engineering management, deep IAM expertise, and strong AI-enabled operating practices.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop the IAM Platform engineering team, including hiring, mentorship, performance management, and career growth.
- Own delivery of an enterprise-grade access management platform covering authorization, permissions and roles, authentication, SSO, MFA/2FA, session and token management, SCIM provisioning, sharing, access controls, audit logs, OAuth, API tokens, and core data model APIs.
- Set roadmap and priorities with product, security, and engineering leadership.
- Run an AI-native team using agentic workflows to route, scope, report on, and streamline work.
- Partner with enterprise customers, go-to-market, and security teams on access-control and identity requirements.
- Own operational excellence for high-blast-radius services, including on-call health, safe migrations, reliability, and server-side security boundaries.
- Uphold standards for architecture, code review, testing, performance, and security-by-design.
- Collaborate across backend, frontend, platform, product, design, and information security.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production SaaS.
- 3+ years managing engineering teams, including senior engineers.
- Hands-on identity and access management experience delivering authentication and authorization systems using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWTs, MFA/2FA, enterprise SSO, SCIM, and RBAC permission and role models.
- Experience using AI tools and agentic workflows to automate reporting, triage, and status processes.
- Experience delivering enterprise-grade SaaS at scale and working with enterprise customers and security, compliance, and administrative requirements.
- Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
- Technical depth to lead architecture discussions and make sound trade-offs on high-blast-radius systems.
- Security-conscious approach focused on correctness, auditability, and blast-radius reduction.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Daily fluency with AI tools.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience owning IAM or authorization at scale, including millions of users, multi-tenant systems, or workspace-scoped identity and token models.
- Experience designing configuration-driven or policy-based access models, RBAC/ABAC systems, authorization engines, or Zero Trust identity.
- Experience with SCIM provisioning, audit logging, and enterprise compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
- Experience moving a product upmarket and winning demanding enterprise customers.
- Experience introducing AI-native or agent-driven operating models to an engineering team.
- Experience managing engineers across backend and frontend or managing other engineering leads.

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